First there was “A Quick One While He’s Away,” Then an Alley, S.F. Sorrow, Tommy and Quadrophenia. Then there was Jesus Christ Superstar. And opening tonight for its world premiere at the New Denver Civic Theatre, 721 Santa Fe Drive, is Magdalene, Woman of Light. Following the story of Mary…
If anything’s been a success for the Denver Public Library’s Fresh City Life series, it’s the knitting track. “We’ve offered it for long time,” says Fresh City Life honcho Chris Loffelmacher. “The knitting classes are tried-and-true, and they don’t run out of gas. But because the intermediate-level classes are much…
“Apocalyptic,” “playful,” “druggy,” “deviant,” “defying analysis”: These are just some of the descriptions critics have applied to painter Daniel Richter’s oeuvre. Richter’s artistic foundation (he was born in 1962) was built on punk rock; he worked as a graphic designer of album covers and concert posters before continuing on to…
We might be headed toward the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression, but that doesn’t mean you should eschew fashion and start shopping clearance racks and Wal-Mart. Heavens, no! To save beaucoup bucks and still be totally stylish, head to today’s Fall Donation Extravaganza and Art Swap at the…
With a little help from James W. Loewen (author of, most notably, Lies My Teacher Told Me) and Howard Zinn (most famous for A People’s History of the United States), anyone can learn to distrust the way American history has been recorded and represented — from the point of view…
Before, if I wanted insight into the changing face of modern China, I had only to consult Peter Hessler, the keen-voiced journalist and Beijing correspondent for the New Yorker who digs right into the character of the nation by pitching his tent among its everyday people to write books like…
Just in time for both Halloween and the fortieth anniversary of the film’s original release, the Bug Theatre is bringing the zombie classic Night of the Living Dead to the stage. Director Kris Hipps says she’s been a fan of the film since seeing it on afternoon creature features as…
What Jaime Kopke absolutely gets is how the modern world is like an atom, all neutrons and protons smashing around one another the way those spinning motorcyclists do in a globe at the circus: a place of contained yet constantly moving energy and synaptic explosions that are gone as soon…
What do you get when you mix traditional theater with poetry, storytelling, rap, gospel, jazz riffs, bluesy laments and Spanish boleros? Something like Slanguage, a performance by Universes taking the stage for one night only at the University of Denver’s Newman Center for the Performing Arts. Universes member Steven Sapp…
Singapore-born violinist Kailin Yong calls himself a “fiddler for peace,” and he does so without a shred of irony or self-consciousness; in 2003, Yong was even awarded year-long possession of the Daniel Pearl Memorial Violin, an instrument built in the memory of the American reporter slain by terrorists (Pearl was…
It’s been several years now since Eddy Joe Cotton was a little-known hobo, hopping freight trains and playing hand-made instruments in a three-piece jug band. His 2003 book, Hobo: A Young Man’s Thoughts on Trains and Tramping in America, helped launch his Yard Dogs Road Show into the internationally traveling…
“I’ve been getting a lot of calls from people who want to hear about the history of contemporary art,” explains Adam Lerner, director of Belmar’s Laboratory of Art and Ideas. “People want to learn more about the art they see in museums around the country. But we didn’t want to…
No one does creepy and surreal quite like Neil Gaiman. So it’s easy to see why his latest book is so hotly anticipated — and so far, it’s received glowing reviews from Peter S. Beagle (who wrote The Last Unicorn) and Holly Black (co-creator of The Spiderwick Chronicles). The Graveyard…
“It looks as if all of Colorado is burning today,” said then-governor Bill Owens after catching an aerial view of the Hayman arson fire in Southwestern Colorado. Although this wasn’t one of the area’s more notorious crimes, the fact that it was started by a forestry officer burning a letter…
“We’ve developed these habits that we can have any food at any time,” notes David Bravdica, director of alumni and student services at the Cook Street School of Fine Cooking. Which is all well and good, but what about appreciation for in-season foods — at the peak of their yumminess…
It used to be that if someone called me “green,” he meant I was sick, sad, immature, inexperienced, unsophisticated or naive. Now it means I’m an Al Gore quoting, gum-wrapper-recycling, water-conserving, non-littering, canvas-grocery-bag-carrying, Styrofoam-refusing, wouldn’t-be-caught-dead-with-my-engine-idling pain in everyone else’s ass. And it’s all true, save the Al Gore bit (I…
In the 1930s and ’40s, screwball comedy was an often-manic remedy to the Depression-era problems surrounding people on a day-to-day basis. With the economy once again in a nosedive, wouldn’t it be great to forget about all the political bickering, government bailouts and rising gas prices for a little while?…
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, released in 1981 (and recently reissued), was an attempt by David Byrne and Brian Eno to forge new territory via found sounds, samples, and assorted Africanisms that foreshadowed a good many musical trends. In contrast, Everything That Happens represents a retrenchment, albeit an…
What do The Daily Show, New Yorker cartoons and standup comics have in common? This weekend, the traveling Colorado Art Ranch comes to Denver to find out. Its Artposium, titled “What’s So Funny About Art?,” will explore the ways that writers, artists and even yoga teachers use laughter to open…
Multi-talented local performer Amy Fisher was larger than life, and her death in early August sent a shock wave through the Denver community. “So many people were touched by her and felt that she was this close, close, wonderful friend that they couldn’t imagine living without,” remembers Anne Medina, aka…
Ralph Roberts probably thinks he’s seen and heard everything there is to see and hear about beards and body hair. Since he began crossing the country in May on a 38-foot-long mobile barbershop for the WAHL Let It Grow Tour, he’s seen a contender for Most Hirsute Homeless Guy shaved…
If you were a gay Catholic, what would you do to foster understanding and benevolence between the church and your gay community? If you’re federal prosecutor and gay erotica writer Scott Pomfret, then you live in Boston, and you’re in a perfect position to stalk — er, we mean, find…
